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Solar Bottle Lights a Bright Idea for the Developing World


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Filipinos living in simple corrugated metal homes have had problems lighting their homes for generations. Even since the invention of electricity, electric lighting has been used sparingly by certain communities due to its cost. It is frustrating that Filipinos live in such a bright, tropical country and yet that some of them have been living mostly in the dark. But now a creative and entrepreneurial Filipino man has found a cheap, easy, electricity-free (and eco-friendly) way to light people’s homes and is installing his lighting system one home at a time.

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